ChyronHego today announced the launch of ChyronHego Academy, a training resource designed to help industry professionals acquire and update essential skills in working with the company's graphics products. Offering a self-paced online curriculum created by product experts, ChyronHego Academy provides a pathway to becoming a certified ChyronHego product designer or operator. The initial ChyronHego Academy courses focus on PRIME Graphics and will be followed by courses on additional products from the ChyronHego portfolio.

"Over the years, ChyronHego has been a trusted partner of Lyric freelancers, as well as the many designers and operators working with ChyronHego's Lyric and PRIME Graphics solutions at broadcast and production facilities worldwide," said Carol Bettencourt, manager of strategic marketing projects at ChyronHego. "With ChyronHego Academy we're extending support for these users, giving them the tools to increase their knowledge and expand their career opportunities from the comfort of their home. To support the broadcast community as a whole during the COVID-19 crisis, we're making ChyronHego Academy courses and certification available at no cost."

ChyronHegos Virtual Football System Earns Official FIFA Quality Certification for Virtual Offside Line Technology

Posted: 18/12/2019

ChyronHego today announced that its Virtual Football system has been certified as a virtual offside line technology by FIFA®, the world governing body for football. A powerful yet easy-to-use system for inserting virtual graphics onto the field, Virtual Football addresses the stringent performance requirements essential to the accurate placement of offside lines as part of the video assistant referee (VAR) workflow in football matches. Referees can rely on the technology to accurately place an offside line and help them make decisions more easily. Broadcasters and stadium entertainment teams can use it to give fans a better understanding of how and why officials make crucial decisions throughout the game.

"ChyronHego has been at the forefront of this technology for over a decade and has made several exciting enhancements to Virtual Football specifically for offside line placement within the VAR workflow," said Niall Hendry, product manager, sports, at ChyronHego. "We have optimized calibration speed and workflow, as well as field and lens parameters, and we've also enabled selection from multiple angles to improve accuracy and streamline the user workflow."

Testronic, a leader in quality assurance (QA), localization services, and compliance for the film, television and games industries, has achieved Dolby Vision® Certification following an intensive period of training and investment in their Burbank facility. In order to achieve this certified status, the facility was subjected to rigorous review and is now configured and set up to meet the standards of a Dolby Vision certified facility.

Dolby Vision® certification ensures that all of Testronic’s Master QC personnel have been trained by Dolby and that the facility has been commissioned by Dolby engineers. Dolby Vision post production tools and workflows give content creators what they need to efficiently create both Dolby Vision, HDR, and legacy SDR content. Dolby Vision ensures that the look they create in the color suite stays true when experienced across TV’s PC’s, tablets and mobile devices. Testronic can now test that this stays true across all OTT Platforms.

VuWall, a leader in video wall control and AV network management, today announced its AVIXA accreditation of the VuWall Certified Specialist training program. Designed for system designers, technical sales, consultants, and field and service technicians, the training is free to qualified resellers and is offered several times each year at VuWall's Montreal and Stuttgart locations. Resellers who complete the training can earn up to 17 renewal units (RUs) toward AVIXA's Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) credential after successfully completing written and practical exams.

"With the increasing demand for video wall and visualization solutions globally, we're invested in providing AV professionals with training resources that will allow them to take advantage of these opportunities,” said Paul Vander Plaetse, CEO. "This program will give them the assurance that they need to expand their expertise confidently. They will tackle several facets that must be considered when designing, configuring, and maintaining VuWall's video wall systems."

EditShare® a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, announced from the IBC2019 show floor (stand 7.A35) the launch of EditShare Academy. A mix of instructor-led and e-learning courses designed to take students from beginner to expert in EditShare tools and workflows, the EditShare Academy offers sales and video professionals a structured curriculum that culminates in industry certification in one of three areas: EditShare Associate, EditShare Engineer, and EditShare Sales Professional. With EditShare the solution of choice to manage the exponential growth in video production, EditShare Academy gives sales engineers, IT managers and video professionals the confidence that systems are running at optimal performance and knowledge to maximize the return on investment.

Marquis Broadcast’s Workspace Tools and Project Parking products operate seamlessly within the Avid environment, providing customers with absolute confidence in its world-class disaster recovery, business continuity and productivity solutions. For a limited time, Marquis is offering a 10-day free software evaluation, plus 50%* off these Avid Platform Certified productivity and protection tools, which are ideal for Avid NEXIS and ISIS users. These include:

Marquis Broadcast has announced that its Workspace Tools products are now Avid® certified, delivering Avid’s seal of approval for the company’s powerful disaster recovery, backup and business continuity solutions. Marquis is already an Avid Certified Alliance Partner with its Project Parking software, which enables Avid project media to be archived, moved/parked or deleted as required. Now, with Avid certification for Workspace Tools, Marquis has demonstrated how its products operate seamlessly within the Avid environment, providing customers with absolute confidence in a world-class disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

Marquis Broadcast will showcase its world-class disaster recovery and business continuity tools at NAB (booth SU6225), including the new Premiere Parking software for Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud), an Interplay Metadata Export Tool, plus Medway Cloud Workflow. The company will also be demonstrating its newly Avid certified Workspace Tools suite, which uses unique analytics to accelerate recovery to production.

Nevion, the award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, has successfully renewed its ISO 9001:2015 and 14001:2015 certifications. The new certifications underline Nevion’s corporate transformation from simply providing ’media transport and broadcast products and solutions’, to being a company focused on the ’development, sales, deployment and support of Software Defined Technologies for mission critical data networking’, including networking for media production.

Blackmagic Design Announces New Training and amp; Certification Program for DaVinci Resolve 14

Posted: 15/12/2017

Blackmagic Design today announced a worldwide training and certification program, along with certified curriculum, for DaVinci Resolve 14. Now customers can learn professional editing, color correction and Fairlight audio post production at their own pace by purchasing the Blackmagic Design series of books, including the newly available Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve 14, or they can take training courses online or in person at certified training partners.

Zenterio, a leading television and multiscreen solutions provider, announced today that its JetUI multiscreen user interface is now integrated and certified with the latest release of Huawei Envision. Using the combined solution, pay-TV operators can speed up the time to market for cloud-based video services, reduce start-up and lifecycle costs, and deliver a richer and more intuitive TV experience to subscribers on set-top boxes (STBs), tablets, smartphones, PCs, and connected TVs. By providing operators with a pre-integrated solution for distributing multiscreen TV services, JetUI and Huawei Envision Version 6 ultimately enable increased monetization and viewer satisfaction.

SGO, the high end post production software and systems developer, today announces its certification for ATTO Technology 12Gb ExpressSAS® host bus adapters (HBAs) with its high-end post production hero suite, Mistika Ultima. This new addition will help post-production teams better manage large data transfers and offer support for real-time editing of uncompressed 4K video.

Audinate, creators of the industry-leading audio networking technology Dante, announced that Level 1 of the popular Dante Certification program is now available online. This online course allows customers the opportunity to become certified any time, any place, without the need to attend in-person events.

NUGEN Audio today announced that its Loudness Management Batch (LMB) Processor has received certification by the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) as an AS-11 DPP-compliant product. AS-11 DPP is a new international standard format for MXF contribution of HD audio and video files, developed jointly by AMWA and the Digital Production Partnership (DPP). After a series of qualifying tests, the LMB Processor has met the AS-11 DPP certification-level criteria as determined by the DPP Compliance Programme Parties, based on version 1.1 of the AMWA AS-11 specification and version 4.1 of the U.K. DPP broadcaster technical delivery specification.

PESA, a leading designer and manufacturer of professional audio and video distribution solutions, today announced the U.S. Department of Defense has approved upgrades to its Video Distribution System (VDS), which includes several products in its Cheetah large-scale digital router product line. After initially receiving certification in January 2013, the company submitted a number of software and firmware updates for evaluation and testing.

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